Flint Water Crisis Overrides Governor Snyder’s Middle East Trip

In an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow on Wednesday, the state’s embattled governor discussed efforts to fix damage in Flint, the investigation into how lead-poisoned water ended up in residents’ homes and the class action lawsuits against the city and state.

Snyder’s time in office has been trademarked by uplifting bumpersticker slogans. Members of the EPA task force have come forward alleging that testing in many cities is being gamed to make the water appear safer than it is. “Because they could be affected”.

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has apologized for regulatory failures and other things that led to Flint’s crisis.

State officials have since said that they addressed that barrier. “But as a practice now, we should be working on that, very clearly”.

Residents of Flint complained for more than 18 months that their water was contaminated.

“Now we need to figure out … is there a protective barrier” being recoated in the pipes by anti-corrosion chemicals, Creagh said.

“A lot of work is being done to even understand where the lead services lines fully are”, Snyder said.

At Monday’s press conference, Snyder called Edwards one of the “heroes” of the crisis.

Genesee County Volunteer Militia members and protesters gather for a rally outside of Flint City Hall on Sunday Jan. 24, 2016, over the city’s ongoing water crisis.

“I seen Madonna and Jimmy Fallon’s $10,000 donations … that’s cute, but not almost enough…So I challenge both and anyone else in the world to match me and DONATE $1,000,000 in bottled water to Flint Michigan”. The corrosive water from the river caused lead from aging pipes to leach into the water supply, causing extremely elevated levels of lead.

The tap water still remains undrinkable and residents say they are scared for their health. They’re for-profit companies. And by providing water to the public schools for the remainder of the year, the four companies have effectively supplanted the local water authorities and made themselves an indispensable public utility, but without any amount of public regulation or local accountability.

Already, Susan Hedman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional administrator for Flint, Michigan, has resigned in the wake of the crisis.

The pipes are on private property, but Smitherman said the city has a responsibility to inform residents if their water is tainted.

The Vicksburg native is among the Tougaloo College students collecting water for residents of Flint.

But some groups aren’t waiting for the findings of a committee.

NAACP national CEO Cornell Brooks told a crowd on Tuesday in Flint that minorities may have been disproportionately affected by the contamination in Flint’s water, calling for the creation of a victims’ fund. After his speech, Brooks met with Gov. Rick Snyder along with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to express his concerns. The financially strapped city was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager in April of 2014, when it switched its source of tap water from Detroit’s system to the nearby Flint River in a cost-cutting move.